Open Data and Innovation: Vast Opportunities, Untapped Value
More than a decade ago, governments throughout the world made a radical policy shift from storing data in government silos to ...
Smart City Evolution: A Review of Becoming a Smart City
Over the past years, the smart city concept has reached a state of mainstream acknowledgment throughout the world. However, ...
How Smart Cities Are Boosting Citizen Engagement
According to statistics from the United Nations Population Fund, over half of the planet’s population lives in cities. By the ...
Leading North American Smart Cities to Watch in 2019
In a 2018 report completed by the Eden Strategy Institute, 12 of the globe’s 20 smartest cities were located in the USA. ...
Rising Stars: Eight Smart Cities in Asia to Watch in 2019 - Part 2
As we saw in our last article on Asian smart city stars, urban centers in Asia are facing mass urbanization on a much more ...
Bob Bennett: the Role of Smart Cities Technology and their Benefits
Bob Bennett, the former Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of Kansas City talked in our Smart City Leader Interview Series - while ...
Rising Asian Stars: Smart Cities in Asia to Watch in 2019 - Part 1
There were an estimated 47 megacities in existence in 2017, and the majority were located in Asia. The region is facing ...
Smart Cities and the Promise of Innovation in Public Services
There was a time when bells in town squares warned citizens of impending danger. Today, the bells ring again in the form of ...
Estonia: Smart Nation on the Baltic Sea
What does it take to turn a national bureaucracy into a smart government? It’s not too often a country is given a clean slate ...
Jonathan Reichental on the Importance of Smart Cities & Smart Citizens
The importance of smart cities & smart citizens: In our new interview series, smart city leaders comment on the future of ...